[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1459]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. GUTHRIE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GUTHRIE. Madam Speaker, everyone wants to make health care more 
affordable and more accessible, but for the past year, the majority has 
been working on pieces of a puzzle they call health care reform. And 
now that their puzzle is complete, the picture doesn't make any sense.
  Their final image includes billions of dollars in new taxes, over $1 
trillion in new government, increases the premiums of the 85 percent of 
those who have health insurance, and cuts Medicare by half a trillion 
dollars. And I continue to hear from Kentuckians from home who remain 
concerned over the possible passage of this bill and who are frustrated 
with this process.
  We need to start over. We need to piece together better solutions in 
an open and honest system. Now is the time to work on incremental 
reforms that will lower the cost of health care without spending 
trillions and bankrupting future generations.

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